Hebrews 12
1 For that reason, since we are surrounded by such a great crowd of people who gave evidence of their trust in God, let's get rid of everything that holds us back, the seductive sins that trip us up, and let's keep on running the race placed before us.
正因如此，既然我们身边有这么多人证明了他们对上帝的信任，让我们摆脱一切阻碍我们的东西，让我们摆脱诱惑的罪恶，让我们继续在眼前的道路上奔跑。
2 We should keep on looking to Jesus, the one who begins and completes our trust in God. Because of the joy ahead of him Jesus endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and sat down at the right hand of God's throne.
我们应该继续仰望耶稣，他开始并完成了我们对上帝之信。因着他面前的喜乐，耶稣不顾耻辱背负十字架，最终坐在上帝宝座的右边。
3 Think about Jesus who endured such hostility from sinful people so you don't grow tired and become discouraged.
这位忍受罪人那样顶撞的耶稣，你们要仔细思想，免得疲倦灰心。
4 Your resistance so far hasn't cost you blood as you fight against sin.
你们与罪恶斗争，还没有对抗到流血的地步；
5 Have you forgotten God's appeal to you when he reasons with you as his children? He says, “My child, don't treat the Lord's discipline lightly, and don't give up when he corrects you either.
你们可曾忘记上帝好像劝自己孩子的话，说：“我的孩子！不可轻看主的管教，受责备的时候也不要灰心；
6 The Lord disciplines everyone he loves, and he punishes everyone he welcomes as his child.”
因为主只管教爱的人，会惩罚他的每一个儿子。”
7 Be patient as you experience God's discipline because he is treating you as his children. What child doesn't experience a father's discipline?
受到上帝的管教时要有耐心，因为他把你当作他的孩子。哪个孩子没有经历过父亲的管教？
8 If you are not disciplined, (which everyone has experienced), then you are illegitimate and not true children.
作儿子的都受过管教。如果你们没有受管教，就是私生子，不是儿子了。
9 For if we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn't we even more be subject to the discipline of our spiritual Father which leads to life?
因为如果我们尊重管教我们的人间父亲，不是更应该接受那引领至生命的灵之父管教吗？
10 They disciplined us for a short while as they thought appropriate, but God does so for our benefit in order that we can share his holy character.
他们按自己认为合适的方式管教我们一段时间，但上帝这样做是为了我们的利益，让我们可以分享他的圣洁品格。
11 When it happens, all discipline seems painful and not something to be happy about. But later on it produces peace in those who have been trained in this way so that they do what is good and right.
被管教时，所有的纪律似乎都就很痛苦，而不值得高兴。但后来，这些管教让那些经历之人产生平安，这样他们就可以做善事和正确的事。
12 So strengthen your feeble hands, and your weak knees!
所以，把下垂的手和发软的膝盖挺直起来；
13 Make straight paths to walk on, so that those who are crippled won't lose their way, but will be healed.
要把你们的道路修直，让瘸子不会扭脚，而是得到复原。
14 Do your best to live in peace with everybody, and look for holiness—if you don't have this you won't see the Lord.
你们要竭力寻求与众人和睦，并且要竭力追求圣洁。如果没有圣洁，谁也不能见主。
15 Make sure that none of you lack God's grace, in case some cause of bitterness arises to give trouble and end up corrupting many of you.
你们要小心，免得有人失去了上帝的恩典；免得苦之因长起来缠绕你们，污染众人；
16 Make sure there's nobody who is sexually immoral, or irreligious, like Esau was. He sold his birthright for a single meal.
确保没有人像以扫那样淫乱或不信教，为了一顿饭卖掉了与生俱来的权利。
17 You remember that even when he wanted to receive the blessing later on he was refused. Even though he really tried, and cried hard, Esau couldn't change what he had done.
你们记得，后来以扫想要承受祝福，却被拒绝了；他虽然带着眼泪寻求，还是无法改变他所做的。
18 You haven't arrived at a physical mountain that can be touched, that burned with fire, to a stormy place of black darkness,
你们还未来到那座可以触摸的、实在的山。那里有烈火、密云、幽暗、暴风、
19 where the sound of a trumpet and a voice speaking was heard—and those who heard the voice begged never to hear it speak to them again.
号筒的响声和说话的声音；那些听见这声音的人，都请求上帝不要再向他们多说话；
20 For they couldn't take what they were told to do, such as, “Even if a farm animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”
因为他们承受不起那命令：“即使走兽挨近这山，也要用石头把它打死。”
21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses himself said, “I'm so scared I'm shaking!”
当时显出的景象是那么可怕，连摩西都说：“我非常恐惧战兢。”
22 But you have arrived at Mount Zion, the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands and thousands of angels.
但你们却来到锡安山和永恒上帝的城，就是天上的耶路撒冷；在那里有千万的天使聚集，
23 You have come to the church of the firstborn whose names are written down in heaven, to God, the judge of everyone, and to those good people whose lives are complete.
你来到了名字登记在天堂的长子教会，来到了审判所有人的上帝面前，以及那些有着完整生命的良善之人面前。
24 You have come to Jesus, who shares with us the new agreed relationship, to the sprinkled blood that means more than that of Abel.
你已经来到建立新约定关系的中间人耶稣面前，还有他所洒的血。这血的意义比亚伯的血更大。
25 Make sure you don't reject the one who is speaking! If they didn't escape when they rejected God on earth, it is even more certain that we won't escape if we turn away from God who warns us from heaven!
不要拒绝那说话之人。如果他们因在人间拒绝上帝而无法逃走，可以肯定的是，如果我们背离从天上警告我们的神，我们也逃不掉！
26 Back then God's voice shook the earth, but his promise is now: “One more time I'm going to shake not only the earth, but heaven too.”
当时上帝的声音震动了大地；现在他承诺说：“我要再一次震动地，还要震动天。”
27 This expression, “one more time,” indicates that all creation that is shaken is removed so that everything that is not shaken may remain.
“再一次”表明那些被震动的一切，就会向被造之物一样被清除，让那些不被震动的一切可以留存，
28 Since we're receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have a gracious attitude, so we can serve God in a way that pleases him, with reverence and respect.
因此，我们既然获得了不能震动的国，就应该感恩，按照让上帝喜悦的方式，用虔诚敬畏的心事奉他；
29 For “our God is a fire that consumes.”
因为我们的上帝就是毁灭的烈火。
